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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6601525 | Incinerator with an ash control unit An incinerator includes a furnace with a supporting plate that defines a combustion chamber thereabove and an ash receiving chamber therebelow in the furnace. An ash control unit includes a partitioning member that divides the ash receiving chamber into u... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6199491 | Refuse incinerating oven A refuse incinerating oven includes a refuse loading car, and a furnace body with lower and upper combustion chambers. The car is conveyed through the furnace body such that refuse loaded on the car can be ignited in the lower combustion chamber. The comb... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5711233 | Process and arrangement for the treatment of solid combustion residues in a combustion installation, in particular in a waste incineration plant The arrangement for treating combustion residues of a combustion installation comprises an ash discharger into which opens a fall shaft, into which the solid combustion residues fall from a furnace grate. The ash is conveyed from the ash discharger into t... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5647287 | Ash clinker ramming apparatus An apparatus mounted to an enclosure housing of a water entrained ash hopper for dislodging ash pluggages across an ash discharge opening in the ash hopper to maintain passage of ash from the ash hopper. The apparatus comprising a plate rotatably and seal... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5628259 | Economizer lump breaker A lump breaker apparatus mounted to an airlock of an economizer ash hopper for breaking up ash clinkers accumulated on a grating disposed in the airlock to maintain the passage of ash through the grating of the airlock. The apparatus comprising a pneumati... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5564350 | Method and apparatus for removal of residual product A filter-dryer unit has an agitator having an agitator arm provided with gas discharge nozzles directed at the bottom wall, which includes a liquid discharge filter element, of the vessel of the filter-dryer unit. High pressure, high velocity gas is disch... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5517950 | System for slag removal and the like A cleaning system comprises a compressor for delivering pressurized air to an accumulator via a valve controlled line. An outlet line extends from the accumulator and terminates adjacent a furnace floor drain. Upon command the entire volume of pressurized... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5355844 | System for slag removal and the like A cleaning system comprises a compressor for delivering pressurized air to an accumulator via a valve controlled line. An outlet line extends from the accumulator and terminates adjacent a furnace floor drain. Upon command the entire volume of pressurized... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5288195 | Incinerator ash dumping container A dumping container for collecting, transporting and dumping primarily ashes removed from an incinerator. A pair of pivoted fore and aft frame members, of hollow box like crossection engage the tines of a manual cable operated hoist. The cable hoist provi... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5285737 | Incinerator An has included a furnace, a blower at one side of the furnace, a fuel supply means, a wind guiding means, a filter means, a broiling chamber, and a dust expelling means. The furnace has a combustion chamber at inner bottom portion adapted to burn trash t... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5137010 | Combustion grate for pellet fueled stove Stoves fueled by biomass pellets are provided with a grate assembly that supports the pellets for combustion and directs combustion gas into the fire. The grate assembly includes a passive grate and a moveable elongate blade spaced above the upper surface... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4913066 | Rotary combustor having a material removal device A rotary combustor which includes a combustion barrel and a windbox disposed underneath the barrel. A scraper is mounted inside the windbox on a sloping bottom surface thereof which is movable along the surface to remove material therefrom.... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4884515 | Furnance hearth ashbox with extractor chamber that is easy to unjam An ashbox for the hearth of a furnace adapted to burn solid fuel, descending along in inclined grate as it burns. The ashbox comprises an extractor chamber having a concave bottom which is part-cylindrical with horizontal generatrices. This chamber is nor... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4846082 | Tire carcass pyrolysis system The system comprises a pyrolysis chamber having a tire carcass inlet port and communicating with at least a duct for supplying combustion air, the pyrolysis chamber further communicating with s steam generator and having a stationary bottom of frustum of ... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4520737 | Process and reactor for the combustion of carbon-containing fuel A process and apparatus for the combustion of carbon-containing fuel in a reaction zone, with the products of combustion being removed from the top of the reaction zone and the slag from the bottom of the reaction zone. The reaction zone is separated from... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4388876 | Ash removal system An ash removal apparatus for a burner which produces ash moved through a discharge passage in the floor of the burner, including a circumferential ash-removing opening surrounding the grate of the burner, with the surfaces forming the opening being circum... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4351248 | Heating boiler for the combustion of baled straw A heating boiler for substantially continuous controlled combustion of baled straw. The boiler includes a straw feed channel communicating with a combustion chamber having a combustion zone adjacent the rear wall of the combustion chamber, a flue gas heat... | 09/28/1982 |
| 3999744 | Apparatus for removing fallen slag from beneath a flame cutting table Disclosed herein is an improved apparatus for removing fallen slag from beneath a flame cutting table. A three-sided scoop is positioned below the table. Co-acting guide members are mounted along the sides of the scoop and the table. Chains are fastened t... | 12/28/1976 |
